梅里利·S.格林德尔，哈佛国际发展研究所的副研究员，她还在霍金斯出版社出版了《国家与乡村》 约翰·W.托马斯，哈佛国际发展研究所的副研究员。 两位作者在发展问题上有广泛的造诣，他们都是肯尼迪政府学院公共政策领域的讲师。 黄新华，厦门大学经济学系博士生，厦门大学公共事务学院教授。 陈天慈，厦门大学经济学系博士。

“This is a valuable and fascinating book – valuable because of the findings it presents, fascinating because of the way it presents them. The subject of Becoming Modern is the modernization process in six developing nations (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Bangladesh). The method is to survey about a thousand men, aged 20-30, in each of these lands. The goal is to...(展开全部)

China's rural industrial sector has been the engine driving much of the Chinese economy's dynamism during the reform period. The nature and development of this sector, also referred to as township and village enterprises (TVEs) defy easy explanation. Across regions, there is dramatic variation in property rights among TVEs, ranging from local government ownership to outright pr...(展开全部)

"Agents of Power," 2/e examines media in a "global" world and explores timely issues in media and public policy to emphasize the worldwide interaction of media and politics from Washington to Moscow, from the news room to the board room.

More than 130 years after Karl Marx’s death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitalism keeps being haunted by period crises. The most recent capitalist crisis has brought back attention to Marx’s works. This volume presents 18 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, w...(展开全部)

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the “hundred days” in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformer...(展开全部)